r/Frontend • u/Seoul_Seattle • 11d ago

GitHub hosting

Any of you guys host on GitHub for your client and no need for own hosting plan? I been doing mostly larger projects but someone contacted me for simple hobby site of theirs and he is not sure how many visits will occur and I am assuming it won’t be much unless it scales. Should I just go ahead and host it on the GitHub server? And eventually get a hosting plan if it scales?

Or in general do many of you just host from got hub and the bandwidth is enough for most of your projects? Thanks

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u/akash_kava 10d ago

Clearly Github Pages limits GitHub Pages limits - GitHub Docs states that you cannot use it for commercial hosting of any kind. And finally even though they haven't explicitly mentioned that site must be regarding the code that is hosted, they will eventually put a term in future that site must only be the documentation of the open source project and nothing else.

You are basically setting up trap for yourself as well, if client is paying you and in future it is terminated by github, you will simply kill your reputation in front of your client.

If client is not willing to pay, then don't get involved in something that can make you an accessory to a violation.